Burkina Faso: What to know about the diplomat Olivia ROUAMBA?
Olivia ROUAMBA, Ambassador, Minister Plenipotentiary, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Regional Cooperation and Burkinabe Abroad, strives daily to promote Burkina Faso’s diplomacy in the four corners of the world, in a context of fight against terrorism and national reconciliation.
Multilingual, she speaks French, English and Spanish, and holds several university degrees and certificates obtained at the University of Ouagadougou and other universities and institutes in Africa, Europe and the United States of America. She was Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Burkina Faso to the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, the African Union Commission and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa.
From 2013 to 2017, she held senior positions in the Office of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission. She also worked as Second Counsellor at the Embassy of Burkina Faso in Pretoria from 2008 to 2013, after some years of service at the Central Administration in Ouagadougou.
In 2022, she left her position as ambassador after just one year to take up her new responsibilities. At the head of her ministry, Mrs. Olivia ROUAMBA, does well what she knows how to do since she has assumed several responsibilities in the ministry she leads today.
The urgent challenges are enormous: fighting terrorism, restoring the integrity of the national territory, providing an effective and urgent response to the humanitarian crisis and the socio-economic and community dramas caused by insecurity, to name but a few. To meet these challenges, Burkina Faso needs the commitment of all its sons and daughters, both inside and outside the country, to emerge from this difficult situation.
